Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: x86: use native MSR ops for SPEC_CTRL

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:41:35PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Having a paravirt indirect call in the IBRS restore path is not a
> good idea, since we are trying to protect from speculative execution
> of bogus indirect branch targets.  It is also slower, so use
> native_wrmsrl on the vmentry path too.

But it gets replaced during patching. As in once the machine boots
the assembler changes from:

	callq 	*0xfffflbah

to
	wrmsr

? I don't think you need this patch.

> 
> Fixes: d28b387fb74da95d69d2615732f50cceb38e9a4d
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 7 ++++---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 7 ++++---
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> index b3e488a74828..1598beeda11c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
>  #include <asm/debugreg.h>
>  #include <asm/kvm_para.h>
>  #include <asm/irq_remapping.h>
> +#include <asm/microcode.h>
>  #include <asm/nospec-branch.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/virtext.h>
> @@ -5355,7 +5356,7 @@ static void svm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	 * being speculatively taken.
>  	 */
>  	if (svm->spec_ctrl)
> -		wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, svm->spec_ctrl);
> +		native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, svm->spec_ctrl);
>  
>  	asm volatile (
>  		"push %%" _ASM_BP "; \n\t"
> @@ -5465,10 +5466,10 @@ static void svm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	 * save it.
>  	 */
>  	if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))
> -		rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, svm->spec_ctrl);
> +		svm->spec_ctrl = native_read_msr(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL);
>  
>  	if (svm->spec_ctrl)
> -		wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
> +		native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
>  
>  	/* Eliminate branch target predictions from guest mode */
>  	vmexit_fill_RSB();
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> index 67b028d8e726..5caeb8dc5bda 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
>  #include <asm/apic.h>
>  #include <asm/irq_remapping.h>
>  #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
> +#include <asm/microcode.h>
>  #include <asm/nospec-branch.h>
>  
>  #include "trace.h"
> @@ -9453,7 +9454,7 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	 * being speculatively taken.
>  	 */
>  	if (vmx->spec_ctrl)
> -		wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, vmx->spec_ctrl);
> +		native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, vmx->spec_ctrl);
>  
>  	vmx->__launched = vmx->loaded_vmcs->launched;
>  	asm(
> @@ -9589,10 +9590,10 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	 * save it.
>  	 */
>  	if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))
> -		rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, vmx->spec_ctrl);
> +		vmx->spec_ctrl = native_read_msr(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL);
>  
>  	if (vmx->spec_ctrl)
> -		wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
> +		native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
>  
>  	/* Eliminate branch target predictions from guest mode */
>  	vmexit_fill_RSB();
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
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